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12 The Priority: Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority
12 The Priority: Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority
Pages 104-108
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The reading was from a letter dated 185S and was sent by Chief Seattle to the President of the United States regarding yet another sale of Indian land to the expanding American republic. That famous letter begins with the question and comment: But how can you buy or sell the sky, the land7 The idea is strange to us" (campbell' I 990:28)
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A mayor war fought between the worlds second and fifth largest armies takes not years but days. And when the Japanese stock market fluctuates, Wall Street and Nebraska grain farmers alike respond not in hours but in seconds.
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He understood that God had form. Of course, dialectics work well in Indian mysticism, but less so in tightly budgeted, self-indulgent, immoderate universities.
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In Isso' many of us were thrilled by the production on the Public Broadcast Service of Richard Wagnerts Ring Cycle, Der Ring den Nibelungen; four operas and 16 hours of the world projected In myth and music. Woton, the one-eyed sky god, and his accompanying pantheon represent humankind.
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Maybe it is best, then, that we accept our challenge: to produce educated individuals prepared, as Paul Kennedy says, for sensible planning. This is no easy task, but we have asked the monks, "Where is the city?
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